(Due to sudden miracles I am now unkillable)

Hinder

“Do not react to force in kind. Turn it aside. Direct it to where it can do no harm.” —Meloku the Clouded Mirror

Oh, but had the artisan who made me created me instead – a worthy woman... ...I would say "how lucky am I"

Father in heaven who did miracles for our ancestors with fire and water... ...Who would then transform me from a man to woman? Were I only to have merited this being so graced by goodness...

What shall I say? why cry or be bitter? If my father in heaven has decreed upon me and has maimed me with an immutable deformity then I do not wish to remove it. the sorrow of the impossible is a human pain that nothing will cure and for which no comfort can be found. So, I will bear and suffer until I die and wither in the ground. Since I have learned from our tradition that we bless both, the good and the bitter I will bless in a voice hushed and weak: blessed are you [HaShem] who has not made me a woman.

About what "Protect the youth" has become. Idk what it was like in other countries and I know that it very likely could have been stricter than it was in my country back then. But generally:

He was like "When I was 16, there were two kinds of adult content: Horror movies and explicitly depicted sexual content. The first made me have nightmares, the latter (as in what you could get in video rental stores) generally wasn't of much interest to me because it wasn't something I, as a 16 year old, could relate to. And other sexual content that was interesting (and/or helpful) WAS freely accessible. So whenever I saw an "18+" label somewhere, I just completely ignored that content because I knew it wouldn't be interesting at all to me.

But NOW, what's declared 18+ is even an excessive amount of swear words in streams! NOW, when I see an "18+" label, I don't know if it's horror movies that'll give some 16 year olds nightmares, if it's completely unrelatable porn, OR if it's educational sex ed, a 20 year old talking about their really healthy relationship with their partner (that includes intimacy), education about consent in BDSM (which affects 16 year olds as well, there's no age limit to curiosity), a live stream of wholesome musicians who happen to drink a couple of beers during kind of therapeutic talks, or simply people who aren't puritans and say "fuck" a lot! An 18+ label isn't worth anything anymore!"

And yeah... That's just it.

People who talk about body changes during their (first!) puberty are even labelled adult content. Even though puberty very much happens BEFORE adulthood. It's helpful content for minors. And it's labelled "adult" to "protect the youth".

Levi's said yes, actually. Assless chaps and a biker vest. Happy Pride.

Feel awkward about people maybe thinking you’re queer but still want to clearly signal “queers are okay with me”? SURE. LOVE IT. HERE’S YOUR WEIRD FLAG.

Don’t fucking at me about allies right now, they are ALSO actually getting fucking killed over us. Take your puri-gay shitty tent somewhere else mine is great with people’s cishet friends and relatives showing up to have our backs.

She offered a stack of books on the built-in shelf to me, saying I could look through and take whatever I liked. I was looking through, the first titles on the stack were very uninteresting but there was a stack next to it which I gravitated toward. It was a stack of interesting books, but the one which stood out was near the bottom of the pile: Moonchild. (do I need to namedrop the author? lol)

I gasped and went to take it from the pile to claim, but my new friend (a tall, dark auburn-haired woman, with a sort of eastern european face, a long nose, she was very beautiful, smelled of nice perfume) caught me and very quickly pushed Moonchild back into the stack, telling me that she'd only meant the one stack, and this was her personal collection she was keeping for herself. I nodded along, but the way she'd went about it, she was clearly trying to hide the fact that she had a copy of this book from me for some reason, which I still find strange and notable.

At some other part of the dream, I was traveling through the same town. Travel in some areas was particular, though, and you could sit on these little rafts and float down a series of streams carved into the hillside to your destination. the water was very shallow and yet very clean, very cool. My path went through a light forest that I think was near a road or some other more formal path of travel. I turned a corner and saw a rather rotund tabby cat pop his head up, and I called him over. Do you want to be my best friend?